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TFEH presents: Jean-Philippe Gross / Semay Wu / Off Brand at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh: 30/5/24.

TFEH delivers another programme of experimental music. We have our reasons. You can find out more & buy tickets here.

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Braw Gigs present & Mare Music: Yeah You / Off Brand at Summerhall, Edinburgh: 19/5/24.

You can find out more & buy tickets to this Braw Gigs show here.

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TFEH presents: Arttu Partinen / Tim Olive & Liminal Haze / Nikki Moran & Off Brand at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh: 19/4/24.

When it comes to experimental music, TFEH will gladly entertain the April Fools of weirdo wonk AND the scholars of electroacoustic investigation on the same bill. You can find out more & buy tickets here.

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There was a gig last month.....

... Olivier Di Placido, Fritz Welch, CKDH & Off Brand entertained thirty-odd folks at Fruitmarket in Edinburgh on 22nd March, but my slack ass forgot to update this Tumblr page. I'd like to think that having successfully updating it would have brought as many as two additional punters, but I hae mah doobts! Oh, well. I'm mostly posting about it now so that I remember to declare the measly profits on my tax return.

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A new Off Brand album on Giant Tank.

Naebody saw this coming, and certainly naebody asked for it, but Off Brand have recorded a double CD set's worth of improvisations for ACTUAL musical instruments. You can stream, listen, download & buy CDs here.

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TFEH presents: Two Thirds Of A Good Thing / Timothea Armour & Friends / Turmeric Acid at The Waverley Bar, Edinburgh: 22/2/24.

TFEH plates up three helfy helpings of the EH? sound: All ingredients have been locally sourced from the front row of our regular audience to provide youse with all the experimental music that you can eat. (This event will also serve as a launch party for the new double CD by the TFEH house band, Off Brand.) You can find out more & buy tickets here.

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Excuse note #2.

Kirstie 'Steve Jobs' Paton came round and tinkered with the back end of this site for me so you'll find the links at the top of the page will take you to the Giant Tank & Usurper Bandcamp pages, the TFEH site that Firas built and my Linktree page. Have a neb if you're that way inclined and, in the meantime, gawk at these two posters of gigs that youse might have missed recently. MANY THANXXX TO KIRSTIE!!!

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Excuse note #1.

How would youse feel? You've just gone through a bruising divorce with yr artistic partner of two decades and then folks are asking why you havnae updated yr Tumblr site? Jeeeeeezo..... As most of youse will be aware, I (Ali Robertson) am somewhat technologically inept. All that stuff that Usurper used to say about being "luddites"? That wasnae schtick. It's fact! And for this reason, I am awaiting a time when my kind pal, Kirstie Paton, can lend me her time to faff with this page on my behalf and make the links, etc more relevant to all things Giant Tank-related. So... please be patient while I do some renovations and, in the meantime, I'll endeavour to feed youse some news tidbits via various social media platforms. You can find links here: https://linktr.ee/gianttank

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Cheers very much. Be seeing youse.....

So the final curtain has been and gone... Thanks to Summerhall for hosting Usurper's retirement party, to Tindegger, Joyce Whitchurch & the Chocolate Monk DJs for serenading our lugholes, and to our family & friends fae all over the dis-UK, Europe & further afield who made it along on Saturday. Our hearts melted, along with the rest of our bodies, in that sweaty sold out venue knowing that youse were there with us. Thanks also to our extended family of international weirdos across the globe who sent well wishes and who kept us keen to traverse the landscape of largely unpopular music for one day shy of two decades. We love youse, fellow choobs. You can continue to follow Ali Robertson's exploits... On Tumblr as Giant Tank, eh: www.gianttankeh.tumblr.com On Bandcamp as Giant Tank: www.gianttank.bandcamp.com On Faceboak as Giant Tank: www.facebook.com/gianttank On Faceboak as TfEh: www.facebook.com/Tfehgigs On Instagroan as Giant Tank Against Tedium: www.instagram.com/gianttankagainsttedium On Threads as Giant Tank Against Tedium: @gianttankagainsttedium@threads.net On YeTube with Collette Tank: www.youtube.com/@collettetank On Twitland as Chobertson: www.twitter.com/Chobertson

If youse wanna hear what Malcy Duff is up to next then maybe learn morse code or smoke signalling.....

CHEERIO!!!

(Photo by Alejandro Basterrechea.)

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A new (and final) Usurper album on Krim Kram.

Krim Kram's Dave Murphy will be hand delivering copies of the new Usurper album, 'The Big Two', at our Summerhall retirement party tomorrow and you will be able to scoop it up in exchange for ten pounds sterling. It's an honest-to-gonk cd, as opposed to a cd-r. Bet ye never thought ye'd see Usurper housed in a digipak! We will also have a t-shirt available which will cost fifteen quid and is a limited edition of just twenty-five. Roll up, roll up.....

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IT'S "GOODBYE" FAE HIM... www.duffandrobertson.tumblr will shortly be reborn as www.gianttank.tumblr.com .

Those who know Malcy Duff will know that he squirms whenever social media is mentioned. So, with Usurper's farewell party happening this weekend, as of next week he will be retiring fae Tumblr permanently. Those who want to stay in touch probably already ken his phone number and anyone else should invest in a carrier pigeon.

Meanwhile, Ali Robertson will still be here and this Tumblr page will receive a new name so that you can continue to make this yr one-stop shop for all info regarding his creative endeavours, releases on the Giant Tank label and forthcoming TfEh events. Just note the new URL.

(I cannae guarantee that all the content previously available will still be present as I remain technologically inept, but I guess we'll find out next week when I hit the detonate button, eh?!?!)

The adventure continues...

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Ali Robertson is almost in residency at The Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow: 6/10/23 & 7/10/23.

Ali Robertson will be squatting in The Oldhairdresser's for forty-eight hours next week so that he can hop the bill at TWO cavalcades of real OUT sound: on Fri 6th, Robertson will have the pleasure of performing a duo with esteemed warbler Nichola Scrutton and on Sat 7th he will hog the spotlight on his lonesome. You can find out more about these shows here & here.

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Line-up confirmed for GTNK050: ‘THAT’S THAT THEN’ with USURPER, TINDEGGER, JOYCE WHITCHURCH & CHOCOLATE MONK DJs at Summerhall, Edinburgh: 14/10/23.

As promised, here's the full line-up for GTNK050: That's That Then.

14th Oct 2023 @ Summerhall...

USURPER (Malcy Duff & Ali Robertson's final set).

TINDEGGER (FUA's Tina K & Muscletusk's Grant Smith).

JOYCE WHITCHURCH (Acrid Lactations' Sue Fitzpatrick).

CHOCOLATE MONK DJs (Karen Constance & Dylan Nyoukis).

You can buy tickets here.

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A new Nichola Scrutton & Ali Robertson album on Chocolate Monk.

Ensure you're wearing your seat belt on this tour of the Scottish Central Belt as your escorts are predisposed to unleashing belters for strings, gobs & kerfuffle and you'll get pure pelters if you dinnae subscribe to their version of the Highway Code. The always excellent Chocolate Monk has turned this collaborative effort into a limited edition of 60 limited edition CD-Rs and you can get them here.

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Sonically Depicting & TFEH present: BANANA / Mark Vernon / Marlo De Lara / Off Brand Asthmatic at The Waverley Bar, Edinburgh: 5/9/23.

Firas Khnaisser & Ali Robertson are clanging noggins together with Ceylan 'Bell Lungs' Hay for a last minute co-production this Tuesday at The Waverley Bar. Please join for another international cavalcade of real OUT sound fae around the globe in a wee room off The Royal Mile. You can find out more about this show here. P.S.: Nae advance tix for this one due to it's last minute nature so please arrive with ten pounds in cash to gain entry!

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Ali Robertson & many more on 'The Juice From Your Pen Is Running Down My Leg' Vol. 2 on Chocolate Monk.

14 tracks of gob-centric goof courtesy of The Brighton Institute to confound yr cd player & cerebellum. You can get one here.

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Tickets available NOW for GTNK050: 'THAT'S THAT THEN' with USURPER & friends at Summerhall, Edinburgh: 14/10/23.

Sorry for the delay, but tickets are now available from Summerhall's website for our farewell finale! Giant Tank presents..... GTNK050: THAT'S THAT THEN. Commemorating 19 years and 364 days of Usurper. This will be the final performance by Malcy Duff & Ali Robertson as Usurper. Some of their old pals will perform also. I'm not crying. He's crying. No, I'm not crying. He's crying. You can get tickets here.